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My watch is unpaired from my old phone. On my new phone, I have selected “pair existing watch” and it says “connecting to your Apple Watch” for no longer than 15 seconds before it says it’s unable to connect. Already restarted all devices. What can I do?
Apple Watch SE, watchOS 8
Greetings smastro123,
If you have unpaired your Apple Watch from your old iPhone, then it erased your Apple Watch and your Apple Watch would need to be paired to your new iPhone using these steps - Set up your Apple Watch
When unpairing Apple Watch devices from an iPhone it makes a backup to your iPhone. As long as that backup existed on your old iPhone prior to transferring all your data to your new iPhone, you should be prompted to see if you want to restore your Apple Watch via the backup.
Here is a summary of the article, however each step is broken out with much more detail in the article.
Thanks.
Greetings smastro123,
If you have unpaired your Apple Watch from your old iPhone, then it erased your Apple Watch and your Apple Watch would need to be paired to your new iPhone using these steps - Set up your Apple Watch
When unpairing Apple Watch devices from an iPhone it makes a backup to your iPhone. As long as that backup existed on your old iPhone prior to transferring all your data to your new iPhone, you should be prompted to see if you want to restore your Apple Watch via the backup.
Here is a summary of the article, however each step is broken out with much more detail in the article.
Thanks.
Existing watch won’t pair to new phone
